This essay attempts to highlight the striking points of agreement between two “originary accounts” to which Freud accorded a central place, by openly contrasting the “myth of the primal horde” with the neurotic “Family Romance”, according to the title of his 1908. This entails examining the secret inter-textuality that is at work in the Freudian myth of cultural genealogy and in the neurotic romance of individual genealogy – by asking the question: to what extent does the myth help us to read the family romance, and the romance help us to read the myth.